These are the first pictures of triple murder suspect Arthur Simpson-Kent fleeing Britain for Ghana as the bodies of his family lay buried in a shallow grave.

The 48-year-old’s trail was captured by a series of CCTV and traffic cameras after he was quizzed by police over the deaths of former ­EastEnders star Sian Blake, 43, and their children Zachary, eight, and four-year-old Amon.

Simpson-Kent left home on December 16, as Sian’s distraught family waited for any news about her mystery ­disappearance several days earlier.

Police had visited the dilapidated bungalow in Erith, Kent, but left after talking to the former hairdresser.

Victim: Former EastEnders actress Sian Blake

Later, the family car was spotted on traffic cameras as it headed towards East London, 15 miles away.

The Renault Scenic was left in a street where it sat for more than two weeks gathering parking tickets.

He spent December 17 in Camden, North London, taking more money out of one bank account and depositing all his cash into his and Sian’s joint Post Office account.

That night, Simpson-Kent caught the sleeper coach from Victoria station in London to Glasgow, where his KLM flight would take him via Amsterdam to Ghana’s capital, Accra.

In the last picture of him on British soil he is heading through the departure gate and onto his flight.

Dec 19, 21:01: Border guards photograph him at passport control in Accra

More than 27 hours later, on December 19, Ghanaian border control took a picture of his face, as they do with all passengers, before stamping his passport and allowing him through.

Back in Britain, police again called at the family home and found he was gone. He was listed as a “high-risk missing person”.

Tracked: Simpson-Kent’s journey to Ghana

Once in west Africa, “Norman” as he was known to some, stayed with relatives in Cape Coast, the port city where he was born. Sources said he left within days after a series of rows with them as they, believing him to be rich, kept asking for money.

His cousin Benya Arthur Jones-Kenneth told how Simpson-Kent arrived at his gran’s old home outside Cape Coast and broke in to an upstairs room.

She said: “I heard the sound from upstairs and came out. I had never seen this man before. I did not know he was my cousin.

Home: His gran’s former house in Cape Coast (Photo: John Alevroyiannis/Daily Mirror)

“I asked him why he broke into my house. He was saying ‘This is my grandmother’s house’ and I was saying the same so we are family. My gran left me this house when she died.

“He broke the door down and put his bags inside. He said this was always the room he stayed in when he visited. I did not want to fight him. He went into the town to buy a padlock and locked the gates outside his room.

“He was here for a day or two, I did not see him much. Then I got up one morning and he had vanished.”

Simpson-Kent’s trail took him further west to the small costal town of Busua. He stayed in various cheap lodgings over Christmas and New Year.

Bludgeoned: Eight-year-old Zachary (Photo: PA)

Body: Amon was found buried with his mother and brother (Photo: PA)

In Kent, the missing persons search for Sian and the children became a murder hunt when their bodies were found buried in the back garden on January 3. They had been ­bludgeoned to death. A knife was also used on the children.